Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
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- Pub. Date: January 1961
- 201pp
- Sales Rank: 230,116
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: January 1961
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
- Format: Hardcover, 201pp
- Sales Rank: 230,116
- ISBN-13: 9780316769549
- ISBN: 0316769541
Synopsis
The author writes: FRANNY came out in The New Yorker in 1955, and was swiftly followed, in 1957 by ZOOEY. Both stories are early, critical entries in a narrative series I'm doing about a family of settlers in twentieth-century New York, the Glasses. It is a long-term project, patently an ambiguous one, and there is a real-enough danger, I suppose that sooner or later I'll bog down, perhaps disappear entirely, in my own methods, locutions, and mannerisms. On the whole, though, I'm very hopeful. I love working on these Glass stories, I've been waiting for them most of my life, and I think I have fairly decent, monomaniacal plans to finish them with due care and all-available skill.
New York Times
I am one of those...for whom Salinger's work dawned as something of a revelation. I expect that further revelations are to come. The Glass saga, as he has sketched it out, potentially contains great fiction...the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of as all.—Books of the Century, The New York Times review September, 1961
Biography
His cloistered lifestyle and limited output have not prevented readers and writers from lionizing J. D. Salinger. With one-of-a-kind stories and the classic novel The Catcher in the Rye, he captured, with wit and poignance, a growing malaise in post-war America.
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Not Great...by DeDeFlowers
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May 17, 2009: To start out with I think I should say I am a huge JD Salinger fan. Catcher is one of my favorite books of all time and I love his short stories that are not found in books. The other stories that involve the Glass family are excellent! However... I think Franny and Zooey is one of the most boring books I have read in a long time. I had really high expectations, so that might have to do with my rating. This is not Salinger's best. It represents his writing style (an example would be italicizing for emphasis) and general writing attitude, but it doesn't have a stimulating plot or anything. You get introduced to some members of the Glass family and that is pretty much it. Don't form your opinion of JD Salinger from this book. Read some unpublished short stories of his such as 'Both Parties Concerned' and 'Elaine'. He is great writer, this just is not his best.
I Also Recommend: Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories, Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters and Seymour, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Great Gatsby.
suprisingly lovelyby Anonymous
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January 28, 2008: I absolutely hated Catcher in the Rye, thus was somewhat apprehensive about reading this work of Salinger. However, a freind continued to assure me I would love it, and once I picked it up, I actually did. It does have that slight hint of whining that Holden did in Catcher but otherwise, this actually has a story line and a plot and a reason for being. It's touching and makes you think and gave me a little slice of compassion. Though I will admit, you have to be in a certain mood in order to read this. Do not come looking for a happy-go-lucky, marvellous adventure, but rather a healing bit of insight for those weary with life.
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